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FILE - Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4, left, is hit by two Chinese coast guard water canons as they tried to enter the Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, in the disputed South China Sea on March 5, 2024. For the first time, China has publicized what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

China publicizes for the first time what it claims is a 2016 agreement with Philippines

China has publicized for the first time what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands.
 
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during his speech in Davao, southern Philippines late Sunday Jan. 28, 2024. Former President Duterte is throwing allegations at his successor, Fernando Marcos Jr., and even raising the prospect of removing him from office, bringing into the open a long-rumored split between the two.(AP Photo/Manman Dejeto)

Ex-Philippine leader Duterte assails Marcos, accusing him of plotting to expand his grip on power

 
Former senator Leila de Lima, center, waves after she is released from the police custodial center at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Philippines on Nov. 13, 2023. A Philippine court on Monday ordered the temporary release on bail of the country's most popular prisoner, who was jailed as a senator more than six years ago on drug charges she said were fabricated to muzzle her investigation of then-President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal anti-drugs crackdown. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Ex-Philippine senator who fought Duterte’s harsh drug crackdown is free on bail after long detention

 
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., right, walks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, during the arrival ceremony at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, Monday, July 31, 2023. (Rolex dela Pena/Pool Photo via AP)

EU leader cites Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to warn against China’s aggression in Asia

 
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his second state of the nation address at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, Philippines on Monday, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine president vows to defend territory, announces amnesty for rebels in key speech

 

Fraternity members take part in a naked run to protest constitutional reform in Philippines

Fraternity members at a university in Manila held on Friday an annual naked run around campus to protest proposed constitutional reform in the Philippines. (FEB 16 2024)
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Jailed Philippine ex-senator released on bail

Philippine court acquits ex-minister of drug charges

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Ex-Philippine President Duterte summoned by prosecutor for allegedly threatening a lawmaker

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his crackdown on illegal drugs that left thousands of suspects dead, has been summoned by a prosecutor to answer a separate allegation that he recently threatened a female lawmaker with death, the complainant said Wednesday.
 
FILE - Detained ex-senator Leila de Lima reacts as she goes out of the Muntinlupa trial court to attend her trial on May 12, 2023 in Muntinlupa, Philippines. A Philippine court rejected on Wednesday June 7, 2023 a bail petition by a former Filipino senator and top human rights enforcer, who opposed then President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly anti-drugs crackdown but was instead accused by his administration of drug dealing and locked up in jail more than six years ago. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Philippine court rejects bail request by former opposition senator who opposed deadly drug campaign

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court rejected on Wednesday a request for bail by a former opposition senator and justice secretary who criticized then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly crackdown on illegal drugs and instead was accused by his administration of drug dealing and was jailed m
 
Detained former opposition Senator Leila de Lima, center, reacts as she goes out of the Muntinlupa trial court on Friday, May 12, 2023 in Muntinlupa, Philippines. De Lima was acquitted by the Muntinlupa court in one of her drug related charges she says were fabricated by former President Rodrigo Duterte and his officials in an attempt to muzzle her criticism of his deadly crackdown on illegal drugs. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine court acquits former justice secretary of drug charges after key witnesses said they lied

A former Philippine opposition senator and justice secretary has been acquitted of drug charges after key witnesses recanted and said they lied about her involvement in trafficking.
 
In this handout photo provided by the EU PIO, Hannah Neumann, center, who leads a delegation of the European Parliament's sub-committee on human rights, talks to reporters during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on Friday Feb. 24, 2023. The Philippines' chances of retaining special trading incentives, including slashed tariffs for a wide array of products, would be boosted if it decides to free a long-detained opposition leader and rejoin the International Criminal Court, a group of European parliamentarians said Friday. (EU PIO via AP)

EU: Freeing ex-senator can help Manila keep trade incentives

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines’ chances of retaining special trading incentives, including slashed tariffs for a wide array of products, would be boosted if it decides to free a long-detained opposition leader and rejoin the International Criminal Court, a group of European parliamentari
 
FILE - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as addresses thousands of the country's municipal councilors during its 10th National Congress Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. The Philippine justice secretary said Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, that any investigation by the International Criminal Court into the widespread killings of suspects in an anti-drugs crackdown under former President Rodrigo Duterte would be “totally unacceptable.” (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Philippines: Unapproved probe into killings unacceptable

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine justice secretary said Friday that any investigation violating the country’s sovereignty by the International Criminal Court into the widespread killings of suspects during an anti-drug crackdown under former President Rodrigo Duterte would be “totally unacc
 
Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, one of the winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and Rappler CEO, speaks to the media after a court decision at the Court of Tax Appeals in Quezon City, Philippines Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The tax court on Wednesday cleared Ressa and her online news company of tax evasion charges she said were part of a slew of legal cases used by former President Rodrigo Duterte to muzzle critical reporting. (AP Photo/Basilio Sepe)

Nobel winner Maria Ressa, news outlet cleared of tax evasion

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa and her news company have been cleared of tax evasion charges she said were among legal cases used by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to try to muzzle critical reporting.
 
FILE - In this photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine then President Rodrigo Duterte meets cabinet officials at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on March 7, 2022. Russia wants the Philippine government to honor a signed contract to purchase 16 military heavy-lift helicopters, which the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte had cancelled due to fears of possible U.S. sanctions. (King Rodriguez/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP, File)

Philippines to buy US aircraft after scrapping Russia deal

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has backed a decision by his predecessor to cancel a contract to buy 16 Russian military heavy-lift helicopters and says his administration has “secured an alternative supply from the United States.”
 
Catholic priest Flaviano "Flavie" Villanueva comforts relatives as they receive the urn containing the remains of victims of alleged extrajudicial killings at a church in Quezon city, Philippines, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. A program was created to assist in getting a final resting place for exhumed remains of alleged victims of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs." (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Rights group: 59 lawyers slain in 6 years in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 133 lawyers have been killed in the Philippines since the 1980s in work-related attacks, nearly half of them in the last six years during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s turbulent term, a prominent group of lawyers said Saturday.
 
Activists light candles as they condemn the killing of Filipino journalist Percival Mabasa during a rally in Quezon, Philippines, Tuesday Oct. 4, 2022. Motorcycle-riding gunmen killed the longtime radio commentator in the latest attack on a member of the media in the Philippines, considered one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Motorcycle-riding gunmen kill Philippine radio commentator

Motorcycle-riding gunmen have killed a longtime radio commentator in metropolitan Manila in the latest attack on a member of the media in the Philippines, considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists.
 
Marines from Philippines, Japan, South Korea and the United States carry their flag during opening ceremonies of an annual joint military exercise called Kamandag the Tagalog acronym for "Cooperation of the Warriors of the Sea" at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig city, Philippines on Monday Oct. 3, 2022. More than 2,500 U.S. and Philippine marines launched combat exercises Monday to be able to jointly respond to any sudden crisis in a region long on tenterhooks over the South China Sea territorial disputes and ChinaÅfs increasingly hostile actions against Taiwan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

US, Philippine forces hold combat drills to brace for crisis

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — More than 2,500 U.S. and Philippine marines joined combat exercises Monday to respond to any sudden crisis in a region long on tenterhooks over South China Sea territorial disputes and increasing tensions over Taiwan.
 
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

The AP Interview: Marcos wants to ‘reintroduce’ Philippines

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wants to “reintroduce the Philippines” to the world. He has ambitious plans for his nation on the international stage and at home.
 
Passengers wearing face masks wait at a bus stop in Manila, Philippines on Sept. 8, 2022. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is extending a state of calamity declared by his predecessor more than two years ago to deal with continuing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, an official said Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippines extending state of calamity for virus pandemic

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is extending a state of calamity declared by his predecessor more than two years ago to deal with continuing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, an official said Monday.
 
In this photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., left, greets U.S. Sen. Edward Markey during the latter's courtesy call at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Thursday Aug. 18, 2022. Markey, who was once banned in the Philippines by former President Rodrigo Duterte, on Friday met a long-detained Filipino opposition leader, former senator Leila de Lima, whom he says has been wrongfully imprisoned under Duterte and should be freed. (Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)

US lawmakers meet detained Philippine opposition leader

U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, who was once banned from the Philippines by former President Rodrigo Duterte, has met a long-detained Filipino opposition leader, whom he says was wrongfully imprisoned under Duterte and should be freed.
 
FILE - Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Manuel Romualdez speaks during a U.S. Trade and Development Agency Offshore Wind Grant Signing at Ayala Triangle Gardens in Manila, Philippines, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Philippine officials are considering a U.S. offer to provide heavy-lift helicopters like its widely used Chinooks after Manila scrapped a deal to buy military choppers from Russia due to fears of Western sanctions, Romualdez said Monday Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, FILE)

Philippines eyes US helicopters after scrapping Russian deal

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials are considering a U.S. offer to provide heavy-lift helicopters like its widely used Chinooks after Manila scrapped a deal to buy military choppers from Russia due to fears of Western sanctions, the Philippine ambassador to Washington said Monday.
 
FILE - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his first state of the nation address in, Quezon city, Philippines, July 25, 2022. Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday Aug. 1, 2022 the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal Court in a decision backing his predecessor's stance but rejects that of human rights activists. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, Pool, File)

Marcos Jr. says Philippines won’t rejoin international court

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal Court, a decision that supports his predecessor’s stance but rejects the wishes of human rights activists.
 
FILE - Philippine Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana speaks during the fifth plenary session of the 18th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense and security forum in Asia, in Singapore on June 2, 2019. Former Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he cancelled the 12.7 billion-peso ($227 million) deal to acquire the Mi-17 helicopters last month in a decision that was approved by then-President Rodrigo Duterte before his six-year term ended on June 30. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim, File)

AP Exclusive: Philippines scraps Russian chopper deal

Philippine officials say the government has scrapped a deal to purchase 16 Russian military transport helicopters due to fears of possible U.S. sanctions.
 
FILE - Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, front left, chairperson of Philippine Government Peace Panel, and Mohagher Iqbal, front right, chief negotiator for the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), exchange signed documents as Malaysian facilitator Abdul Ghafar Tengku Mohamed, front center, witnesses after the 43rd GPH-MILF Exploratory Talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Jan. 25, 2014. Foreign peacekeepers credited with helping ease years of bloody fighting between government forces and Muslim rebels have left the southern Philippines after officials terminated their presence but talks are underway to allow their possible return, officials and the rebels said Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

Philippines ends stay of foreign peacekeepers in the south

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Foreign peacekeepers credited with helping ease years of bloody fighting between government forces and Muslim rebels have left the southern Philippines after officials decided to end their presence, but talks are underway to allow their possible return, officials and the r
 
FILE - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his speech during the inauguration ceremony at the National Museum Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Manila, Philippines. Opposition leaders asked new Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Friday to restore the country's membership in the International Criminal Court to strengthen its defenses against human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Opposition: Philippines should rejoin international court

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Opposition leaders asked new Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday to restore the country’s membership in the International Criminal Court to strengthen defenses against human rights abuses.
 
Emily Soriano holds a picture of her 15-year-old son as she recounts how he was gunned down with four friends and two other residents while partying in a Philippine slum six years ago during an interview with the Associated Press at their home in Manila, Philippines on June 23, 2022. With Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte set to step down on June 30, 2022 at the end of his turbulent six-year term, Soriano and other relatives, who say their loved ones were victims of extrajudicial killings under Duterte's campaign, are turning to the International Criminal Court after failing for years to attain justice at home. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Drug killings leave agony, savage facet to Duterte’s legacy

The thousands of killings under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs have left families in agony and a savage side to his legacy.
 
A staff of Rappler monitors as Filipino journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa talks during a zoom meeting that is seen inside their office in Pasig city, Philippines on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Ressa said her Rappler news website was operating “business as usual” Wednesday and would let Philippine courts decide on a government order to close the outlet critical of the outgoing Duterte administration and its deadly drug crackdown. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Ressa says Philippine courts to decide Rappler closure order

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa says her Rappler news website is operating as usual and will let Philippine courts decide on an order to close the outlet.
 
FILE - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, from the Philippines, attends a news conference in Oslo, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Ressa announced in a speech in Hawaii, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, that the Philippine government is affirming a previous order to shut down Rappler, the news website she co-founded, which has gained notoriety for its reporting of President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody crackdown on illegal drugs. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB scanpix via AP, File)

Maria Ressa: Philippines affirms news site shutdown order

Filipino journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa says in a speech in Hawaii Tuesday that the Philippine government is affirming a previous order to shut down her news site.
 

Philippine officials, governor clash over face mask policy

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials warned Monday that people can face arrest if they defy a presidential order to wear face masks in public to protect against the coronavirus even in a province where the governor has declared they are optional.
 
Chinese structures and buildings on the man-made Fiery Cross Reef at the disputed Spratlys group of islands in the South China Sea are seen on March 20, 2022. The Philippine government has summoned a senior Chinese diplomat in Manila to protest the harassment by the Chinese coast guard of a research vessel manned by Filipino and Taiwanese scientists in the disputed South China Sea, officials said Tuesday May 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Sea feud with China flares as Marcos prepares for presidency

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government announced Tuesday a new diplomatic protest against China over disputes in the South China Sea, a long-thorny issue that has flared anew as the next Philippine president prepares to take office next month.
 
President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., center, raises hands with Senate President Vicente Sotto III, left, and House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco during his proclamation at the House of Representatives, Quezon City, Philippines on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Marcos Jr. was proclaimed the next president of the Philippines by a joint session of Congress Wednesday in an astonishingly huge electoral triumph 36 years after his father was ousted as a brutal dictator by a pro-democracy uprising. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Marcos Jr proclaimed next Philippine president with huge win

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been proclaimed the next president of the Philippines by a joint session of Congress following a landslide electoral triumph 36 years after his dictator father was ousted in a pro-democracy uprising.
 
In this photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a meeting with government officials at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Monday May 23, 2022. Outgoing Philippine President Duterte sharply criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the killings of innocent civilians in Ukraine, saying while the two of them have been tagged as killers, “I kill criminals, I don’t kill children and the elderly.” (Valerie Escalera/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)

Duterte hits Putin: I kill criminals, not children, elders

Outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sharply criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the killings of innocent civilians in Ukraine, saying while the two of them have been tagged as killers, “I kill criminals, I don’t kill children and the elderly.”
 
FILE - Presidential hopeful, former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator, gestures as he greets the crowd during a campaign rally in Quezon City, Philippines on April 13, 2022. Marcos Jr.'s apparent landslide victory in the Philippine presidential election is giving rise to immediate concerns about a further erosion of democracy in the region, and could complicate American efforts to blunt growing Chinese influence and power in the Pacific. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Marcos presidency complicates US efforts to counter China

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s apparent landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election is raising immediate concerns about a further erosion of democracy in Asia.
 
FILE - Presidential candidate, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator, left, raises arms with running mate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, the daughter of the current President, during their last campaign rally Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Paranaque city, Philippines. Marcos Jr. and Duterte are the new leaders of the Philippines, an alliance that ushers in six years of governance that has some human rights activists concerned about the course their country may take with the pair in power. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

New generation of Marcos, Duterte set to lead Philippines

The powerful alliance between the son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the daughter of outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte is set to usher in six years of governance in the Philippines that are concerning to human rights activists.
 
Presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator, votes at a polling center in Batac City, Ilocos Norte, northern Philippines on Monday, May 9, 2022. Filipinos were voting for a new president Monday, with the son of an ousted dictator and a champion of reforms and human rights as top contenders in a tenuous moment in a deeply divided Asian democracy. (AP Photo)

Dictator’s son far ahead in Philippine presidential vote

The son and namesake of ousted Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has taken a commanding lead in an unofficial count in the presidential election in the deeply divided Asian democracy.
 
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. gestures as he greets the crowd during a campaign rally in Quezon City, Philippines on April 13, 2022. Marcos Jr., son of the late dictator and his running mate Sara, who is the daughter of the outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte, are leading pre-election surveys despite his family's history. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Marcos redux? Dictator’s son may win Philippine presidency

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte smile and chat of their love of burgers and mango shakes on the election trail in a carefree YouTube video before breaking into a short rap penned for their campaign for president and vice president of the Philippines by a popular sin
 
In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship sails near a Philippine Coast Guard vessel during its patrol at Bajo de Masinloc, 124 nautical miles west of Zambales province, northwestern Philippines on March 2, 2022. A Chinese coast guard ship last month maneuvered for days near a research vessel deployed by Philippine and Taiwanese scientists to undertake a crucial survey of undersea fault lines west of the northern Philippines, sparking concerns among the scientists on board, officials said Thursday, April 7, 2022. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

South China Sea issues handled ‘properly,’ Xi tells Duterte

BEIJING (AP) — Seeking to put a positive spin on a relationship that never quite produced the hoped-for benefits, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday that the two nations have “properly” handled the sensitive issue of the disputed South China Sea.
 
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